Arizona Governor Is So Excited for Possible Legal Entanglement with the Federal Government

Arizona governor Jan Brewer is not at all worried that anarchist fringe groups like the United States federal government and the American Civil Liberties Union might successfully overturn Arizona’s controversial new immigration policy. “We'll meet you in court,” she told CNN, riffing on the actual phrase people say, “We’ll see you in court.” According to CNN, “[t]he American Civil Liberties Union is currently leading a court challenge. Attorney General Eric Holder, who met with a delegation of police chiefs from Arizona and elsewhere this week to discuss the law, has yet to indicate whether the federal government would file a legal challenge.” (President Obama will hold an awkward meeting with Governor Brewer at the White House on Thursday.) A Tucson police officer is likewise attempting to overturn the policy, and has filed suit against the state, arguing that “the immigration law could hinder state and federal investigations because it inhibits local law enforcement from performing immigration related tasks.”

Governor Brewer and her acolytes have fired back against the criticism with something more powerful than the Constitution: song. Specifically, a wee ditty about reading (maybe?), performed by a frog suffering from amphibian emphysema. Sad.